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Popular and portable, "Bucharest City Guide" contains everything visitors need to know to enjoy themselves in, get the best out of, and find their way around Bucharest. Packed with a surprising amount of information about the many different sights and activities to see and do in and around the „Small Paris".
Packed with photographs, illustrations, and maps, "Bucharest City Guide" explores all the unforgettable sights in Bucharest.
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The only Indonesia travel guide you'll need for getting around Jakarta! Everything you need is in this one convenient package. Linking over 500 activities and attractions into 25 half-day and full-day excursions, this is the first in-depth travel book on Jakarta that tells you exactly where to go, what to do and how to get there in order to maximize your enjoyment of the city. Illustrated with over 40 maps and 200 color photographs of the city, the...
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Explore the boulevards and bistros of the City of Light with fifty walking tours highlighting both major landmarks and lesser-known gems.
Paris is a perfect city to explore à pied, and this eBook is designed for just that. On each page, you'll find an illustrated map and, along with it, insider info on where to eat, drink, stop, and shop.
With these fifty self-guided walking adventures, you can explore historic sites, from the Arc de Triomphe to...
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This Kyoto travel guide presents the best tourists sites in Japan's spiritual and historical capital. With this guide the visitor needs no further assistance to learn all that a place has to offer. It is factual, concise, and complete. This Japan travel book is generously illustrated with photographs, maps, route plans, and building plans, as well as a selection of reproductions from old prints and picture scrolls. The sights were specifically chosen...
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Children turned emperor, emperors turned priest, and priests turned poet are just a few of the colorful characters described in Kyoto: A Cultural Guide. The fascinating facts, larger-than-life characters and grand events described within offer abundant proof that, more than just a treasure house of shrines and temples, Kyoto is indeed one of the most enticing cities in the world. For example, Benkei, an eight-foot-tall monk with a wildly combative...
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Tokyo Sights and Insights is the unique work of Ryosuke Kami, artist, essayist, and native Tokyoite. Weekends Mr. Kami bicycles about his favorite city in search of Tokyo sights to capture on his sketch pad; weeknights he draws on these same sketches to produce the insights that fill this book. Don't look for Ryosuke Kami's sights in other books about Tokyo. Among his subjects are a surviving "milk hall," a replica of Mt. Hakone in the middle of Shinjuku,...
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Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital and modern–day center of tourism and traditional culture, is one of the world's most beautiful and historic cities. Founded nearly 1, 300 years ago and undamaged by the war, Kyoto today is the home of over 1, 600 Buddhist temples, 400 Shinto shrines, countless national treasures and 17 World Heritage sites, including the famed Golden Pavilion, Nijo Castle and Kiyomizu Temple. This book presents 29 easy–to–follow...
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A professional walking guide shares twenty one of the best guided walks along the British capital's scenic waterways, packed with beautiful sights.
Meandering through the London metropolis are the city's many waterways. From the mighty Thames to tranquil streams, from historic wharves to buzzing docklands, the twenty one walks in this book follow these waters, revealing a hidden London full of history, discovery, and surprises.
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The only guide you'll need for walking around Tokyo! Everything you need is in this one convenient package! Tokyo: 29 Walks in the World's Most Exciting City is the only Tokyo travel guide that is exclusively a walking guide, with lively text full of facts and stories that emphasize the history, culture, architecture and spirit of the city and its neighborhoods. On foot and by train or subway, it takes you through the most fascinating parts of the...
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The revised and updated third edition of the classic walking guide to San Francisco.
This list of walking tours in San Francisco features brand new neighborhoods, restaurants, shops, and landmarks. Perfect for tourists exploring in the Bay Area, recent transplants, or even locals who want to become familiar with a new part of the city, this eBook shares the hidden gems of San Francisco.
Each walk, from The Presidio to Japantown to the Embarcadero...
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This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the time of its first settlement to the present. Veteran guidebook author Lynn Setzer leads readers on short walks in state parks and natural areas, state historic sites, charming small towns from the mountains to the sea, and the state's largest cities. Along the way, she brings to life some of our state's most...
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This city was made for walking-navigate the sidewalks of New York with this updated guide.
Featuring brand-new walks, neighborhoods, restaurants, shops, and more, this revised guide reveals New York's best-kept secrets as well as its best-known landmarks, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the High Line to the new Freedom Tower.
Each of the fifty tours includes a full-color map, walking directions, and highlighted stopping points. It's ideal for anyone...
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Packed with 25 walking adventures, this unique guide uncovers the Big Apple's most breathtaking buildings, parks, and monuments! Each page focuses on a specific area and features helpful background information, detailed walking instructions, a full-color map, and stunning photography. Covering both landmark structures and little-known wonders, this is the perfect gift for design-savvy travelers and adventurous locals alike.
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Skip the tour bus and experience the nation's capital on foot with this guide to walkable Washington!
City Walks: Washington, D.C. provides an insider's view of the United States' capital city, from historical landmarks to hot spots. Each page in this eBook outlines a self-guided walking adventure, complete with detailed map and local secrets.
Pick any page and start exploring-and discover the best places to eat, drink, stop, shop, rest, walk, and...
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Stroll the Magnificent Mile and more with fifty Chicago walking tours.
Explore Chicago like a native with this convenient eBook offering maps and information to guide you through numerous enjoyable and enlightening walks that highlight both the history of this Midwestern city and the shopping, dining, and nightlife it offers.
Discover landmarks like Millennium Park, the Loop, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier- along with the many lesser-known...
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Take a walk to NYC destinations both parents and kids can enjoy-includes fifty family-friendly tours.
From the Staten Island Children's Museum to the Roosevelt Island Tram to the New York City Police Museum, New York City is full of family-friendly places to go. Don't worry about finding a sitter- these adventures are designed especially for grownups and kids to discover the Big Apple together!
Walks include: Central Park * Children's Museum of...
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Weatherford was settled in the 1850s, when the pioneers and Indians came for its rich soil and water sources. The mark of fame for Weatherford is the Goodnight-Loving Trail, which was driven by two cattle drivers, Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving. Charles Goodnight, who was killed in an Indian attack, is buried in Weatherford, and a historical marker is placed at his grave in the historic Greenwood Cemetery. Cotton and watermelon were the popular...
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Celebrating at their encampment near Crow Creek on July 4, 1867, railroad surveyors named the settlement after the local Cheyenne tribe. By the time the Union Pacific Railroad arrived in November, the town had grown from a tent city to a "Hell on Wheels" town of ten thousand souls. Cattle barons brought herds to graze the open range, while they reposed in mansions on Millionaires Row. By 1890, the gleaming dome of the new capitol building was visible...
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When Harriet Tubman crossed the line to freedom in Pennsylvania, she left behind her home in Maryland, along with a life of enslavement. Her native land made Tubman the person she became to history: Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, suffragist and advocate for the aged and disabled. Authors Phillip Hesser and Charlie Ewers explore the landscape of Tubman's life, from the slave quarters to the churches to the marshes and fields...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the Massachusetts State House as the "Hub of the Universe." In Boston: A Historic Walking Tour, readers are guided on a series of downtown walking tours that radiate out from this Boston landmark. Featuring different excursions that explore Boston's prominent neighborhoods and districts, visitors and natives alike will see how this city has become one of the country's oldest cultural destinations. Boston's growth and development...
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